" It must have been a pleasant sight to see these old enemies converted into new and loving friends; and to behold their first meeting after being cheated into mutual liking by the merry artifice of the good-humoured prince.

He brought, too, his lady and little daughter, Beatrix, the latter a child of great beauty and many winning ways, to whom the old viscountess took not a little liking, and who was permitted after that to go often and visit the prisoner.

Hitherto there had been a cordial and sincere liking and a mutual esteem between the two young men; but now Adam stood as if petrified, and his amazement turned quickly to fierceness.

The heart of Lincoln, from the start, was in politics rather than the law, for which he had no especial liking.

Since his college days he had never mingled at all in general society until this winter, after their removal to town; and it was with delight that I watched his enjoyment of people, and their evident liking and admiration for him.

If there was a sincere liking between George and the Major, it must be confessed that between the boy and his Uncle Joseph no great love existed.

The first is a gentleman in every sense of the word, the latter endurable, but the young Absalom is my aversion, I am subject to involuntary likings and dislikings, for which I can give no reason, and though the man may be in every way amiable, his presence is very distasteful to me.

And this was wisdom of the Maid; but I to be a little irked-like and restless; and this mayhap because that my blood did itch me, because that it did be so full of the poison of my bruises.

and I took an instant liking to both Hazel Gresham and her brother.

Some think it treasonable, others lewd (don't tell Lady Fanny); but all agree there was something very odd and unaccountable in such sudden likings.

Neither one of them had ever shown the faintest liking for the dead girl, but now she noticed with surprise that they had both been crying.

It is true that compared with Madame Bonanni in her prime, as he remembered her, Margaret was as a lily of the valley to a giant dahlia; yet when he recalled the sweet and healthy English girl he had known and loved in Versailles three years ago, the vision was delicate and fairy-like beside the strong reality of the successful primadonna.

And me sittin' here calcilatin' eggs an' milk domestic-like and thinkin' what bliss . . .

Society is so dull and dense, so lacking in spiritual vision, so dumb and so beast-like that it does not know the difference between a thief and the only Begotten Son.

Many reasons I could give, but when all is said pro and con, Cardan's rule is best, to keep that we are accustomed unto, though it be naught, and to follow our disposition and appetite in some things is not amiss; to eat sometimes of a dish which is hurtful, if we have an extraordinary liking to it.

Another facethe bearded facered-eyed, almost animal-like in its fierce questioning, bent over him.

I'm watching the house, faithful-like, and hear 'er scream.

The men admired him immensely for his great military ability, and his odd ways procured for him that familiar liking to which we have alluded.

His face was bandaged up, and when 'e come in he walked feeble-like and spoke in a faint sort o' voice.

Said Jephson, who has a practical mind, approaching at times the commercial: "The question is not what we like, but what the female novel-reader likes.

I understand the feminine liking for a cup of tea.

He saw her light figure flit ghost-like across the dim stretch of grass and vanish into the shadows.

It was then and there that a frank, hearty liking and alliance was re-established between Harry Goldthwaite and Barbara, upon an old remembered basis of ten years ago, when he had gone away to school and given her half his marbles for a parting keepsake,"as he might have done," we told her, "to any other boy.

" We all took a friendly liking to the cattle-buyer.

Nothin' seemed to be the matter with him: he was only frightened-like, an' couldn't be quieted.